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[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RedWave31:
I do believe in Linux systems, the real hosts file is in root/data/data/

>The system/etc/ hosts file is empty, aka a decoy of some sorts....?

To view it, u may need "rootexplorer.apk" (as opposed to droidexplorer.exe, a windows vista program), as I couldn't get Astro to require SU

(Need to check this out, my own system may be different?)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skrip037:
If it is empty, it just means there aren't any hosts in it. /etc/hosts is the correct file.

What exactly is the process you are using? Does it look like this?

And when you pushed the hosts to your phone, what command did you use?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farmatito:
Where did you get the file from, a windows pc?

In this case you need to convert the end-of-line characters

from Dos to Unix ones. This could be done with nano editor

or with busybox's dos2unix command.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alutastisch:
you should try to open it with the "text editor" in "ASTRO"..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiskCrasher:
That was it! I opened the hosts file in Notepad++ and converted it to UNIX format, then saved it back to my phone. Now blocked addresses are resolving to 127.0.0.1 as expected. No more ads or malware, yay!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenanyan:
Converting hosts file to unix format is worked for me also ,i converted hosts file with notepad++ to unix format(edit>eol conversation>unix format) then copy it in etc ,overwrite(backup ojinal host file to sdcard first with copy command) ,no need to reboot phone
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuflood:
can't pull

Hi

I'm trying to pull the hosts file with adb or with android commander. the adb sais there isn't a file like that and the AC give me this when I try to copy:

Items count: 1

Items source: /system/etc/

Items destination: C:\android-sdk-windows\

Starting operation...

Coping file: hosts@

remote object '/system/etc/hosts@' does not exist

*** Operation complete! ***

What can I do?

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] shengzhims:
Tips

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[G1 Apps and Games] kayiman2005:
the app need to look in the contacts and if a contact number appear more than once, pick them and give the option to remove all duplicate at once. thank you to all the dev, and keep up the great work.
[G1 Apps and Games] MoreGone:
and or merge, After using the facebook contact photo sync I had lots of dups, but some of the new duplicates had an email for example that the original didnt have so I would like them to merge
[G1 Apps and Games] ESKIMOn00b:
log into your gmail and manage contacts that way, you get the option to merge contacts... thats what i did, sort by alpha check all (2-3) of the same name and hit merge
[G1 Apps and Games] SoTacMatt:
Gmail contacts does a good job. You can delete or join contacts. Probably quicker than doing it on the phone.
[G1 Apps and Games] marioiscoool:
also make it so you can delete all contacts at once cuz g1 isnt capable. i dont use gmail contacts because it always erases my currect contacts that werent added through gmail

u have to add the contacts via gmail.com, right? i could never get it to work, i turn all syncs off and when i check my email i just go into gmail and select refresh now
[G1 Apps and Games] pcbpradeep:
Why this gmail for all the things and always ???????????????????????
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jerryjohn:
Hi there, I reset my Tilt to factory settings yesterday and now when I plug it into my computer it does not detect anything.

The phone does charge, so I know that the connection is there.

I've had this problem before but I can't remember what exactly it is that I did to fix it. I've searched the forum and I can't find anything helpful either.

Anyone know what I need to do to fix this?

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] denco7:
Go to settings> connections > usb to pc> and uncheck advanced network functionality or enable faster data sync, Whatever it says.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mdbq:
hello,

i've got the same problem, did what you said, but it doesn't work...

and i need the mobile device center connection to flash my tytn! ;-)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
You should be able to flash using your micro SD.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] denco7:
............but unfortunately you need to initially flash Hardspl thru your PC, from then on everything can be done through the SD card.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
details details..

Have you tried another cable?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lipanz:
hi, i got this problem tu. i plug in the usb cable, but nothing appeared on my computer.id doesnt say it detected anything (usually it says found new hardware). i tried with several usb cables.still the same. but the phone is charged with all those cables i tried.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jerryjohn:
Yeah tried it and still got nothing. I am so stuck on what it could be.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jerryjohn:
I've tried 3 different cables and still have nothing. It worked a couple days ago, but ever since I reformated my phone it stopped working.

I don't understand why my computer doesn't automatically detect it as it did in the past.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
reformat it again?

/grasp at straws
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] j11eck:
My tilt is doing the same thing. 2 days ago I was updating it and when I connected it to the computer nothing happened. Yesterday I tried flashing a new rom, thinking it would wipe it clean and make it connect again, however, it did not work. I am at a loss. Any ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lipanz:
did hard reset and still unable to detect my phone.i'm using G.DK. ROM
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mdbq:
i still have the problem

i trized a lot of cables, but from now the computer even don't say that it an unknown plyg is, he simply doesnt detect it. i'm just able to charge my phone, that's it

and in fact i just wanna put the official french rom on it because it's in dutch, i'm bilingual but it's more pleasant to have my phone in my mother language!

tahnks all of you for your help!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kaalgoosy:
Hmmm, this is starting to smell more than fishy with more and more complaints popping up... Just wiped out my laptop thinking it was an update that killed activesync; complete wipe and still no connection; every and any other type of usb cables connect flawlessly from camera, psp, ds, dsi, usb plug in all work no prob; yet kaiser refuses to sync even with new cables before and after activesync updates :confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jford04:
Try a different PC if possible. Make sure Active Sync or Mobile Center is installed prior to plugging it in.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] usatraveler:
Another one

--DELETE THIS POST-- I added to it, then accidentally double-posted.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] usatraveler:
Another one

I'll add to the pile. Exact same problem. ActiveSync doesn't work, but phone does charge. Various cables used, hard reset done. Haven't yet flashed a new ROM, though. I'm using an HTC official 6.1.

Last successful run of ActiveSync was May 8th. I used System Restore on my PC to pre-date May 8th. Still nothing.

Didn't make any major installations to either the PC (XP SP3) or the Tilt on or around that date. It just...stopped working.

All other functions seemed to work normally, except that I got an alert from QuickGPS that it hadn't been updated since that date. I was able to update that successfully.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] igord:
Same problem on my fathers tytn II... probably HW prob. Will look into it...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kaalgoosy:
Yep, it's definitely a hardware issue with the Kaisers usb port not fully connecting; I pushed the usb bar in a bit with the back end of the stylus and presto! Connected immediately :D:D:D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] usatraveler:
I'll also confirm success by the use of a little bit of brute force. Back end of stylus, a little manipulation, connect, and the "ba-DING!" sound in XP. Wish I'd done that before a hard reset...
[General Questions and Answers] wesley96:
I need an app that copies a value in a certain key in the registry to another key on a regular basis... say, every 5 seconds. Why is this needed? A program is looking at the wrong place in the registry for the values it needs, but the program itself can't be hacked, so this app copies the proper value to the place that the program looks at.

The idea is simple and I've seen it done with Mortscript, but I was wondering if there's a small, standalone app that can do the same thing?
[G1 Android Development] SRT102JZ:
For the past 2 weeks I've been seeing a lot of older apps pop up on top of the list on my market when I sort by most recent. There have been a lot of apps that have done this recently and they have definatly not been released recently. I check the comments and they date back dayts, weeks, and sometimes months so why do they show up on top of the "most recent" app list? I am also seeing newer, recent apps as well but I have no idea if all of them are showing up.

I am on jf 1.5 and this problem has been going on even before I updated to 1.5. I also just did a wipe and I'm still having the market issue. Do I need to try going back to rc29 and unrooting?

The top 15apps that show up for me under "most recent" are:

Astroclock

Astroclock lite

Geogad mobile tours

Geobeagle beta

Securesms lite

Android7 flash player

Portal turret soundboard

Book:abrom crow

Quicknote free

Quicknote pro

Battery percentage trial

Simply percentage

Astro file manager

Proxoid

Is this happening to everybody else or am I the only one experiencing this?
[G1 Android Development] Ryanmo5:
They are updating there apps/games for cupcake compatibility.
[G1 Android Development] SRT102JZ:
So now when a developer updates their app it re-appears up top on the list? Used to be I had to run atrackdog or check my downloads to see if an update was available. And sometimes I still find an update is available even though the app did not re appear near the top. So some apps do re-appear up top and some don't.

Is this only happening when they're updated for cupcake compatibility?
[G1 Android Development] jashsu:
Any time an app is updated and the update has been flagged as compatible with the build of Android you have installed (1.0, 1.1 and 1.5 builds see different items) then it will pop to the top of the newest apps list.

Also, Atrackdog is crap.
[G1 Android Development] SRT102JZ:
ok cool thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] imraan47:
Hey .

I figured out that you need .wav for the alarms and they go in the /Windows directory. The problem is the file size. I had the .wma version of a file that is 2.03M and after converting it to .wav its 29.3M.

this is a problem since my device doesn't have that much space in it to spare for me to place something so big in that directory as a alarm.

can anyone help with why this is or any other options.

i am using Total Video Converter to convert my files
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
I edited my alarm with nero wave editor and it´s only 1.7 Mb and itsa long one...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] imraan47:
Thanks. I will try and use that and see how it works.

I will update here.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] hadimassa:
.wav is uncompressed audio and uses lots of MB. About 10 MB per minute.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] imraan47:
oh how nice!

nero couldn't install because the serial is invalid. now i need to get a crack i guess

and to hear that its a uncompressed audio :(. so i might have to live with larger files if nero doesn't work to compress it down
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Just be aware that on this site serial, warez or any crack is not allowed!

Good luck,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] imraan47:
lets just say i bought it...still trying to get it to work though lol
[Off-topic] Ryanmo5:
Who's looking forward to the upcoming release of transformers 2? I am going to see it as soon as it comes out, can't wait!!
[Off-topic] cris_rowlands:
I definately am looking forward to it.

Im quite an enthusiastic fan & i keep watching the advert over and over again

(yes, i know this is quite sad)

Its also prompted me to add several more to my transformers collection.

(damn you! making me spend money on ebay)

Bring on the release date!!

(i would put a specific one, but its different everwhere)
[Off-topic] ChumleyEX:
Robots, Action, Sweet cars, various awesome vehicles..

HOT!!!

yeah this will be a good movie.
[Off-topic] kdj67f:
Yeah, robots are cool and all but Megan Fox is the hotness. I could wear her like a flannel shirt! :D
[Off-topic] defcomg:
Well put +1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poetryrocksalot:
I am trying to create profiles for my phone. When I set my profile to mute, it will disable the volume buttons from working. When I set my profile to active, it will enable the volume buttons to work.

So that is what I am trying to do, unfortunately, I don't know very much about the windows registry. I was hoping someone can create me a registry key to enable and disable.

I am using phone weaver. Basically this application allows me to select profiles, and when I select profiles they also execute and executable file or a .lnk file and the file will do whatever it is suppose to do. It is very simple, if you don't want to help me with the two registry keys, then I at least ask to know which registry key I am looking for to do this.

And I don't need to disable the volume icon at the top because I use Wisbar Advance to disable it from doing anything except for displaying whether the phone is mute or not.

I am using the Xperia X1. If someone can help me, this would be awesome.
[Touch CDMA General] ski21:
Hi all, I've been testing some roms, and finally found one I like nfsans 6.5. Recently while I was tethering my sprint touch, i had the phone sitting in the window seal for better reception and it was really sunny and warm, my phones screen started rolling by itself and there was nothing I could do. I did a soft reset then the phone would have a white screen. It boots up because the green light is flashing, but it's still a white screen. I can receive phone calls, and if I knew where stuff was on the screen, the screen is still responsive to touches, but it's just white. I tried hard reset, bootloader mode, and taking the battery out and nothing still white screen. I put the battery in the freezer for about 15mins, then put it back in the phone and it boots up and the screen is normal for about 10-15 mins then the screen starts flickering or rolling then it turns white. I took the battery out and stuck the phone in my cool basement for about 30 mins, then put battery in then it does the same thing, it works for about 15 mins then rolling screen then white. Please any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Touch CDMA General] Detroit_Doug:
OK, so your battery gets hot - but have you taken the battery out and ran the phone on a different battery?

It may be heat from the battery causing issues although it would have to be really hot to do so I think or perhaps in your window the sun could have baked something on your phone directly and after the device runs for a while it blanks out the screen

I read through your posts regarding this as well on PPCGeeks - looking for a different answer? Dont think your going to get much of one other than you already got from over there its most likely a hardware issue just how and what is the hard part to determine across the net

Detroit Doug
[Touch CDMA General] ski21:
Thanks, but I don't think I have a thread over there. Looks like I'll have to use my squaretrade warranty with this thing.
[Touch CDMA General] jmleedy:
ok i am going to bring this back into the light to see if there have been any resolutions. i just flashed to v13 of NSFAN's and just started having the white screen. however mine is not really hot at all. neither battery or phone. i figured i had a bad flash so i have tried to reflash a few other times and i still get it. no ryme or reason i even tried flashing back to v12 since i never had a problem and right off the bat, white screen. i think i will post in the mega nsfan's mega thread as well just to maybe get a few more eyes on it.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] Dominican706:
Ive been having problems lately with my mogul for some odd reason it keeps resetting every like 10 second. Ive done everything from relockerr to unlocker and hard reset trying out radios and everything. i just want to know if there is ether a specific radio and BL thats compatible for the 21501 ROM?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] Avatar28:
Either of the unlocked bootloaders should work fine for it. There is a list on the wiki and a sticky thread at the very top of this forum with a list of compatible radio roms. Pretty much, though, I would probably just go with the latest one which I believe is a Sprint.

Also, if your phone is constantly resetting I would try flashing to your carrier's latest stock ROM and make sure that it is stable there first. If it still resets there then you may have a hardware issue of some sort.
[General Topics] orb3000:
Just wanted to share this

http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=7375

If already posted please delete
[General Topics] asbestos:
All i'll say is DAMN IT! I was too busy to put together the patent application for this last year. Very similar to what I was working out :P
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] legendz411:
Maybe my search queries are wrong, or maybe I just am too new to WinMo to do this, but how do I get PBup to install and run on my Fuze?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Th3 Ripper:
You need to copy the .exe over to your phone either internal or storage memory and then execute the file from the phone.

It will then run you through a small series of menu's asking you what to backup and where to store the file.

Its really simple once it gets going.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] legendz411:
Thank you.

I googled it, but the guides I was reading were telling me to connect the phone via mobile center and then run the exe on the pc and it would install on the phone... Or some tale akin to that.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] buzzin:
I just bought a sprint mogal to replace my burnt out p4000. I tried installing the telus cab, nut couldn't get it to connetect to telus (and I did change my settings in the ESPT using the new ESN numbers etc with my old telus defult settings that i wrote down... all of them) I was still getting the roaming probs. I tried *22803 as well as ##MSL# to no avail. So I figured maybe it would be best to down flash to stock telus Rom and radio and go from there. So I used titan relocker (to replace my nue SPL 2.47) and tried to flash the stock rom. Now I am getting a ERROR 294 invalid vender id.

Does this mean that I can't use this phone on telus? I just shelled out dollars thinking it would be no biggie to switch it over. Am I missing something?

Thanks for any help....

Surprisingly I am not freaking out yet, just enjoy another programing puzzle lol
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] drewcam888:
You need a telus prl. Also you can't relock a sprint phone and install a Telus rom. The phone has to be unlocked to install the telus rom.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] krazycanuck82:
i have had a situation that does not shine much hope on your situation. i used to work for telus and was provided a diamond for testing purposes when they came out. it had a problem and our htc rep sent me a new one straight from taiwan. now heres the kicker -----it could not be activated untill the esn was entered into the system on the back end by telus, this took well over a week. this is far from a standard esn exchange. never in two years of working with telus have i been able to get the data network assistance guys to enter a non telus branded phone. the super tight back end activation will not allow it.

i really hope im wrong, and i hope someone will respond to this and make me look foolish, but they would not even accept ne bell pda's which r essentially the same phone minus the existence in the telus master database.

oh man i cannot wait till the tech switch next year so this will no longer be a problem.

as a last resort, i do have a p4000 i nolonger use as the call and end buttons no longer work, but all the touchscreen options make it still quite usable. if u would consider some sort of swap, i do not intend to exchange any $$$ of ne kind, i am open for suggestions. i just see no point of my old p4000 sitting around when it could be used
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] buzzin:
Alas krazycanuck82 you are correct. The kicker is that next year they told it this would no longer be a problem. I am waiting to receive an email from Telus tonight about what options they can give me on a new phone based on a sorta promise from me that if they can't give me a deal I will just buy out the last year of my contract and shop around. So we shall see. As for the Sprint phone. I will still be using it for other apps for the time being so am not to concerned on that front. Just a lesson learned to never assume LOL.
[G1 Android Development] jashsu:
Example:

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.android.stardroid

As a developer, I am sick of the stream of spammorhea from users who are downrating apps that are crashing not due to poorly written code but because the user installed A2SD. You install and use A2SD at your own peril. If you are using A2SD and you experience force closes when non-A2SD users are not, I guarantee you 99% of the time it is because you are using A2SD.

DO NOT REPORT CRASHES OR FORCE CLOSES TO APP DEVELOPERS IF YOU ARE USING A2SD.

Developers have enough on their plate without having to troubleshoot the problems of users who are using extremely non-compliant Android environments. Uninstall A2SD and try again, go read a book, or shoot yourself in the head, but ffs do not report your crashes.
[G1 Android Development] supremeteam256:
or like the people that rate 1 star on an app that says for cupcake only and they don't have cupcake. and complain it don't work.
[G1 Android Development] supremeteam256:
one thing i just noticed since you posted the sky map app, i'm assuming your saying that program won't run with apps2sd. i have apps2sd and when i click on the app in my app list it pops up saying program not installed (guessing since running off sd). but i put it on my desktop and ran it it worked. any explanation.
[G1 Android Development] haensgn:
whoops

this thread just forced closed, no apps to sd...???:confused:
[G1 Android Development] jashsu:
That's part of the problem. Some folks are using symlink version, others are using unionfs version. Some have just /data/apps moved, some have dalvik-cache moved, some people move entire /data. Worse than the fact that A2SD mod is inconsistent with the standard android environment, each user's A2SD environment itself is also inconsistent with other A2SD users.

This kind of unorganized and mostly untested hack is a huge freaking headache for developers. Hackers generally release hacks as-is. That means that they usually don't need to have the hack thoroughly tested before release (part of the reason being they let the community do the testing). On the other hand, app developers, for the most part, have to provide support for their products. This support makes presuppositions about the user's Android environment, such as the security of the /system folder, the location of dalvik-cache, etc.

When taking a device outside of the boundaries of the official Android environment (that is to say by rooting and installing unsanctioned hacks), a user needs to understand that he/she may be causing program instability.

Inexperienced users who install A2SD and other experimental hacks and then improperly attribute crashes to downloaded apps are hurting both the hacking community as well as the app community.